Red Count - The Life and Times of Harry Kessler

Informationen zum Autor Laird M. Easton is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Chico. Klappentext "A richly contextualized portrait of a key Weimar figure, who deserves to be better known. Easton is a lively writer."—Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley "Provocative and original. The Red Count should be welcomed by a growing number of cultural historians interested in reassessing the politics of European modernism and in current debates about the trajectory of German political culture and cultural politics in the decades before the rise of fascism."—Kevin Repp, Yale University "A major addition to understanding the cultural contributions Germany made to the modernist impulse, especially in the years before 1914. Kessler’s numerous activities, as delineated by the author, attest to the cosmopolitanism of many within Germany’s urban, liberal elite. The Red Count is extremely well-written. Easton’s prose is fluid, colorful, and eminently readable. " —Marion Deshmukh, George Mason University Zusammenfassung The life of Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the famous Anglo-German art patron, writer, and activist, offers a vivid and engrossing perspective on the tumultuous transformation of art and politics that took place in modern Europe between 1890 and 1930. This is his biography. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Art and Politics in Modern Germany I. Family and Education II. Apprenticeship III. The Third Weimar IV. The Fever Curve V. War's Purifying Fire VI. The Red Count VII. The Path Downward Conclusion: A World Forever Lost? Notes Bibliography Index

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Laird M. Easton, Laird McLeod Easton, Easton Laird M.
• Edition: University Of California Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 25.01.2006
• EAN: 9780520248175
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24817-5
• Pages: 512
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 38 mm
• Thèmes: Weimar and Now: German Cultura; Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism; Weimar and Now, German Cultural Criticism
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Biographies, autobiographies; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, Germany, The arts: general issues, 20th Century, ART / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, Politics and government, Biography: historical, political and military, The arts: general topics